Artist Opportunities
Find your next artistic endeavor! Submit a mural proposal or browse calls for art.
Organizations may submit a call for art to be listed on this page. To be featured, please send pertinent information including name of opportunity, important dates, image, and website with more information to Melissa Kuscin at mkuscin@artscouncilofprinceton.org.
PROPOSE AN EXHIBITION
The Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center serves as a key resource for contemporary art in central New Jersey. Through thought-provoking exhibitions and related public programs, the Arts Council presents artwork with a broad range of aesthetic, social, cultural, and political themes.
Proposals will be accepted in from July to October 2025 for shows to be scheduled in the 2027 season.
Live for Today, Leon Rainbow
PROPOSE A SPRING STREET MURAL
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) is looking to collaborate with local and regional artists for our Spring Street temporary mural location. Our community-driven mural-making process supports the Arts Council’s mission of building community through the arts, and is open to everyone.
Spring Street murals are generally on view for 3-4 months. A stipend of $500 is provided for selected artists and some materials are provided by the ACP. The mural space, which is mounted MDF attached to the wall of the building, measures 32×8 feet.
Please submit your interest below. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; ACP staff will be in touch if your proposal is to move forward.
Questions? Please email Melissa Kuscin.
Area Opportunities
The Photo Review 2025 International Photography Competition
The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 40th annual photography competition, one of the oldest continuous photography competitions in the world. The Photo Review will reproduce accepted entries in its 2025 competition issue and on its website. Thus, the accepted photographs will be seen by thousands of people all across the world and entrants will have a tangible benefit from the competition.
Also, the prizewinning photographers will be chosen for an exhibition at Philadelphia’s noted Woodmere Art Museum. Plus numerous Editor’s Selections will be exhibited in several Photo Review web galleries.
Awards include a $1,000 purchase prize for inclusion in the Haverford College Photography Collection, one of the largest and most comprehensive college photography collections in the United States, selected by William Earle Williams, the Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in Humanities; Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photography, at Haverford College; a $500 gift certificate for printing at Booksmart Studio; a $250 gift certificate from Digital Silver Imaging; a $250 gift certificate for Red River papers; two $100 gift certificates to PhotoLounge; a $200 gift certificate from Shades of Paper, a leading supplier of inkjet photo paper; $100, $75, and $50 gift certificates for Think Tank camera bags; two $50 gift certificates for PhotoFlashDrive; numerous fabulous items from Photogenic Supply; a feature on the Laurence Miller Gallery’s Picture of the Week email blast; and a feature on Peter Fetterman’s The Power of Photography email blast..
Entry Fee: $40 for up to three images and $8 for each additional image. In addition, all entrants will be able to subscribe to The Photo Review for $40, a 20% discount. (Higher rates apply for non-US subscribers.)
Deadline: May 15, 2025
You can download contest rules and submit images at https://photoreview.org. For further information call The Photo Review at 215/891-0214, 340 East Maple Avenue, Suite 200, Langhorne, PA 19047, info@photoreview.org.
About Juror:
Born in London, Peter Fetterman has been deeply involved in the medium of photography for over 40 years. Initially a filmmaker and collector, he set up his first gallery over 30 years ago in 1988. He was one of the pioneer tenants of Bergamot Station, the Santa Monica Center of the Arts, when it first opened in 1994.
The Peter Fetterman Gallery has one of the largest inventories of classic 20th-century photography in the country, particularly in humanist photography. Diverse holdings include work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Willy Ronis, André Kertész, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lillian Bassman, Pentti Sammallahti, Sarah Moon, and Jeffrey Conley.
Peter has also written multiple books on photography including The Power of Photography, Women: A Celebration, and Cornell Capa. His daily blog, The Power of Photography, has promoted the work of scores of photographers and is seen by many thousands of people around the world, including leading museum curators and serious photo collectors.
Aedra Fine Arts: Call for Artists
International Call for Artists – Critical Review Catalogue Publication & Online Exhibits
No application, publication, or participation fees. No fees at all.
Up to six best in show artists will have their work published in the catalogue with detailed critical essays written by the curators. Artists participating in the online exhibit will have two works of art on display and links to their website and social media. Artists keep 100% sales of their work.
You can apply for the online exhibit by emailing us at curator@aedrafinearts.com
How to apply:
Email your resume, 3 image samples, and artist website.
Artist Feature Catalogue articles are published on our website at https://www.aedrafinearts.com/catalogue and our Substack page at https://aedrafinearts.substack.com
AFA does not accept applications of portfolios with works made by artificial intelligence. AFA also does not accept Instagram accounts as a substitute for an artist website.
Deadline: Rolling
For more info, visit https://www.aedrafinearts.com/callforartists.
THE ADOLPH & ESTHER GOTTLIEB EMERGENCY GRANT
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.
To be eligible for this program, an artist must be able to demonstrate a minimum involvement of ten years in a mature phase of his or her work. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture or printmaking. Each application will be reviewed by the Directors, who will exercise their discretion in considering it, and will determine the amount of each award. Applicants should note there is a set amount appropriated for these grants each fiscal year; once this budgetary limit has been reached, the Foundation will not be able to judge any additional requests on their merits.
NO DEADLINE.
MID ATLANTIC ARTS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS
Administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, state fellowship programs provide funding for individual artists residing in Delaware and New Jersey to encourage and sustain these artists’ pursuit of artistic excellence.
Individual NJ-based artists must apply following the process outlined in the guidelines for New Jersey. At the annual deadline for these programs, a limited number of disciplines are accepted. All applications to these competitive programs are evaluated through a peer panel review process.
DEADLINE: Vary upon opportunity